Tachidesk

A free and open source manga reader that runs extensions built for Tachiyomi.

Tachidesk is as multi-platform as you can get. Any platform that runs java and/or has a modern browser can run it.

Ability to read and write Tachiyomi compatible backups and syncing is a planned feature.

Is this application usable? Should I test it?

Here is a list of current features:

• Installing and executing Tachiyomi's Extensions, So you'll get the same sources.
• A library to save your mangas and categories to put them into.
• Searching and browsing installed sources.
• A decent chapter reader.
• Ability to download Mangas for offline read(This partially works)
• Backup and restore support powered by Tachiyomi Legacy Backups

Note: Keep in mind that Tachidesk is alpha software and can break rarely and/or with each update, so you may have to delete your data to fix it. See General troubleshooting and Support and help if it happens.

Anyways, for more info checkout finished milestone #1 and milestone #2 to see what's implemented in more detail.

Downloading and Running the app

All Operating Systems

You should have The Java Runtime Environment(JRE) 8 or newer and a modern browser installed. Also an internet connection is required as almost everything this app does is downloading stuff.

Download the latest "Stable" jar release from the releases section or a preview jar build from the preview branch.

Double click on the jar file or run java -jar Tachidesk-vX.Y.Z-rxxx.jar (or java -jar Tachidesk-latest.jar if you have the latest preview) from a Terminal/Command Prompt window to run the app which will open a new browser window automatically. Also the System Tray Icon is your friend if you need to open the browser window again or close Tachidesk.

Windows

Download the latest win32 release from the releases section.

The Windows specific build has java bundled inside, so you don't have to install java to use it. Unzip Tachidesk-vX.Y.Z-rxxx-win32.zip and run server.exe. The rest works like the previous section.

Arch Linux

You can install Tachidesk from the AUR

yay -S tachidesk

Docker

Check arbuilder's repo out for more details and the dockerfile.

General troubleshooting

If the app breaks try deleting the directory below and re-running the app (This will delete all your data!) and if the problem persists open an issue.

On Mac OS X : /Users/<Account>/Library/Application Support/Tachidesk

On Windows XP : C:\Documents and Settings\<Account>\Application Data\Local Settings\Tachidesk

On Windows 7 and later : C:\Users\<Account>\AppData\Local\Tachidesk

On Unix/Linux : /home/<account>/.local/share/Tachidesk

Support and help

Join Tachidesk's discord server to hang out with the community and receive support and help.

How does it work?

This project has two components:

1. server: contains the implementation of tachiyomi's extensions library and uses an Android compatibility library to run apk extensions. All this concludes to serving a REST API to webUI.
2. webUI: A react SPA project that works with the server to do the presentation.

Building from source

Prerequisite: Get Android stubs jar

Manual download

Download android.jar and put it under AndroidCompat/lib.

Automated download(needs bash, curl, base64, zip to work)

Run AndroidCompat/getAndroid.sh(MacOS/Linux) or AndroidCompat/getAndroid.ps1(Windows) from project's root directory to download and rebuild the jar file from Google's repository.

Prerequisite: Software dependencies

You need this software packages installed in order to build this project:

• Java Development Kit and Java Runtime Environment version 8 or newer(both Oracle JDK and OpenJDK works)
• Nodejs LTS or latest
• Yarn

building the full-blown jar

Run ./gradlew :webUI:copyBuild server:shadowJar, the resulting built jar file will be server/build/Tachidesk-vX.Y.Z-rxxx.jar.

building without webUI bundled(server only)

Delete the server/src/main/resources/react directory if exists from previous runs, then run ./gradlew server:shadowJar, the resulting built jar file will be server/build/Tachidesk-vX.Y.Z-rxxx.jar.

building the Windows package

Run ./gradlew :server:windowsPackage to build a server only bundle and ./gradlew :webUI:copyBuild :server:windowsPackage to get a full bundle , the resulting built zip package file will be server/build/Tachidesk-vX.Y.Z-rxxx-win32.zip.

Running for development purposes

server module

Follow Get Android stubs jar then run ./gradlew :server:run --stacktrace to run the server

webUI module

How to do it is described in webUI/react/README.md but for short, first cd into webUI/react then run yarn to install the node modules(do this only once) then yarn start to start the development server, if a new browser window doesn't get opned automatically, then open http://127.0.0.1:3000 in a modern browser. This is a create-react-app project and supports HMR and all the other goodies you'll need.

Credit

This project is a spiritual successor of TachiWeb-Server, Many of the ideas and the groundwork adopted in this project comes from TachiWeb.

The AndroidCompat module was originally developed by @null-dev for TachiWeb-Server and is licensed under Apache License Version 2.0.

Parts of tachiyomi is adopted into this codebase, also licensed under Apache License Version 2.0.

You can obtain a copy of Apache License Version 2.0 from http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Changes to both codebases is licensed under MPL v. 2.0 as the rest of this project.

License

Copyright (C) Contributors to the Suwayomi project

This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.